Thousands of mourners
lined the streets of South Africa this morning as Nelson Mandela's body was
moved to lie in state in the capital - inside the building, which once housed
the apartheid government he fought for five decades. South Africans formed a guard of honour for their former president this
morning as his body was transported through Pretoria in a casket draped in the
national flag, in a hearse surrounded by outriders, to lie in state for the
first of three days.
This morning Mandela's
grandson Mandla visited his open casket in the government's Union Buildings,
followed by his second wife Winnie Madikizela-Mandela and third wife Graca
Machel, as well as South Africa's current president Jacob Zuma.
Mr Mandela's remains will
be moved daily between the Military Hospital on the outskirts of Pretoria to
the Union Buildings. It was there that he assumed the first black
presidency of South Africa in 1994, holding court in the same rooms once
occupied by his white oppressors.
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